European industry plan gains support | Beginner Italian Lesson (A0-A1) from Today's News

Today's story: Volkswagen supports the EU plan for European industry. You will hear it in Italian first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Italian: Volkswagen sostiene il piano dell’Ue per l’industria europea
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:34) More stories today
(01:41) Today's headline, slowly
(02:29) People and industry
(03:11) Rules and production
(04:00) Wanting things
(04:38) Today's grammar point
(05:08) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
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TODAY'S ITALIAN TEXT
Volkswagen sostiene il piano dell’Ue per l’industria europea
In Francia, Oliver Blume, capo di Volkswagen, sostiene il piano europeo per l’industria.
Blume vuole una concorrenza giusta con le aziende cinesi.
Le regole del piano devono aiutare le aziende che producono davvero in Europa.
Il piano può limitare gli aiuti pubblici ai prodotti fatti soprattutto nell’Unione europea.
Volkswagen vuole tagliare fino a 100.000 posti di lavoro e ridurre i modelli da 150 a 75.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (capo)
- vocabulary (concorrenza)
- vocabulary (producono)
- vocabulary (aiuti pubblici)
- verb (volere)
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